Design leader
and
product
person
Design leader
and
product
person
Design
leader and
product
person
About
From product design at early-stage startups to brand and identity work, I've spent my two decades in design and product in a mix of roles and disciplines. For nearly a decade I've been deep in the music industry, unpacking some of the biggest challenges around copyright, rights management, and royalty collection. In product I found an inspiring combination of sharp minds, driven people, and the near-infinite potential of scalable tech. I love working shoulder to shoulder with my engineering counterparts and know enough jargon to be dangerous.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Design in Communication Design from RMIT University Australia, and a UX certification from General Assembly. In my time in product I've built teams, managed amazingly talented people, and led product work end-to-end. I am driven by creative, informed and accountable work. On a good day I'll also crush you at table tennis.
Get in touch at corey@coreysimons.com or via socials below.
Experience
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Head of Product (Contract/Fractional)
Post Up
October 2025 – present
Productizing a service-led post-production workflow into a scalable platform -
Co-founder, Product and Design Lead
Music Rights Enforcement Venture
2025 – 2026
Led product and design at an early-stage venture with two industry partners -
Product Lead
RME
2024 – 2025
Rights collection organization launched by Pex for independent music creators -
Senior Principal Designer / Head of Design / Lead Designer
Pex
2017 – 2025
Content fingerprinting and rights tracking platform for music labels and publishers -
Senior Digital Designer, Creative Director
2016 – 2017
Freelance placements including Rapp and MSLGROUP
Projects for Virgin Media, Ernst & Young, and Heathrow Airport -
Senior Designer
Stepladder Communications, London, UK
2014 – 2016
Education
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Bachelor of Design (Communication Design)
RMIT University, Melbourne Australia -
General Assembly User Experience Immersive Course
General Assembly, London, UK -
Interaction Design Foundation
DesignOps Deep Dive
Work
Co-founder, Product and Design Lead
Co-founded an early-stage venture focused on data-driven rights enforcement for music publishers and labels. Built proprietary infrastructure to identify high-value music use across user-generated content platforms at scale, and worked with rightsholder clients on enforcement through to paid settlements.
Head of Product (Contract/Fractional)
Fractional Head of Product at a post-production company building software to automate dailies processing for studios including Paramount, Amazon MGM, and HBO. Productizing the service-led workflow into a scalable platform. Alpha product taken from whiteboard to live MVP demo within weeks. Currently driving product design and direction.
Product Lead
Led product on RME, a new rights collection organization launched by Pex for independent music creators. Customer development surfaced an unexpected segment with a clear economic pain: producers whose beats appeared in songs without proper attribution, breaking the metadata chain that drives royalty payments. Worked with the data team to surface a 100,000+ targeted outreach list from existing scraped UGC data. Followed with a lean v1 delivered as a royalty report to validate the model with the first customer before committing to a full build.
Lead Designer, Pex
Ground-up frontend rewrite and UX redesign of a music rights tracking platform used by claiming teams at major music publishers and labels. Pushed for user research that reframed the work, designed three product capabilities including a match detail modal that replaced the data-export workflow, and co-designed a token-based system pre-Tailwind that's still in production today.
Head of Design, Pex
Built and led the design function during Pex's growth phase. Defined hiring philosophy, interview process, team values, and design ceremonies.
Lead Designer, Pex
Multi-year design work on Pex's Attribution Engine, a real-time rights management and licensing system that identifies and attributes copyrighted audio at the point of upload. Designed the interfaces for music rights data including ownership relationships and complex global usage rules.
Experiments
Solo AI build
Distraction-free golf scoring app. Concept to App-Store-submission-ready in one week using AI tools. Marketing site, brand identity, and iOS app built solo as a constraint exercise.
Identity & Branding
Film and TV graphics for shorts and feature films
Identity and ecommerce website design
Identity and ecommerce website design
Ecommerce website design